Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jovial, mule-stubborn, Missouri-born Republican, Bob Denham switched to the Democrats in 1938 to help beat Franklin Roosevelt's attempted purge of conservative Democratic Senator Millard Tydings. Officially he has never switched back. He first turned up in Washington officialdom in 1933 to help reorganize the closed national banks, after a law career in Seattle and Manhattan financial circles. Since 1938 he has been an NLRB trial examiner...
When Lyuh Woon Heung was seven, he watched his father, a yang ban (big landowner), beat a servant to death-a privilege that was legal in Korea until 1908. Said Lyuh later: "I determined then that when I became a man, I would destroy the yang ban class...
...many of the wise old railbirds liked Stymie's chances. Hadn't Assault come from behind to beat him the week before? Obviously Assault, undefeated in 1947, was the horse to beat, and one of the few hesitations the wise guys had was over those two unpredictable horses specially flown in from the Argentine and Brazil...
...couple of mud-spattered horses seemed to pull away from the other trailers. From the finish line the leader looked like Assault, and cheers went up from the crowd. Actually, it was Stymie. He had overtaken Assault, and with thundering strides passed him. Then he took after Natchez and beat him by a neck at the finish of the 1⅜ mile grind...
...Texas & Pacific Railway Co. last week tried out a scheme to boost passenger travel. It permitted travelers to buy tickets on the installment plan. In so doing, the small (1,874-mile) Texas & Pacific scored a beat over 50 major U.S. railroads; they plan to start installment travel this fall...